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A Soul Divided – Heinrich Heine

Asael Abelman

Though baptized at age twenty-eight, Heinrich Heine remained torn between Judaism and German nationalism, tradition and modernity Asael Abelman Poet, freedom fighter, and cosmopolitan in exile, Heinrich Heine bore the burden of an evolving modernity....

19th centuryArticlesGermanyIssue 16 | April-May 2013Writers

Why We Eat Haman Taschen – Purim Spiel

Shmil Holland

How did a classic Central European pastry become associated with the Jewish festival of Purim? And how did Haman’s ears end up in his pocketbook? Shmil Holland The triangular pastries that developed in Central Europe...

ArticlesCzech RepublicEarly modern periodIssue 9 | February 2012Jewish foodPurim

Topsy Turvy – Purim Spiel

Yair Lifshitz

An annual outlet for the pressure cooker of the medieval Jewish community, the Purim spiel subtly subverts the power structures of Jewish society, making a mockery of their authority Yair Lifshitz Reb Yeshaya Priwes was...

19th centuryArticlesIssue 9 | February 2012Literature and CulturePolandPurim

The Original Zionist Congress

Asael Abelman

Eastern European Locals Pave the Way for Herzl The Russian pogroms of 1881–2 and growing European anti-Semitism precipitated vast Jewish emigration from eastern Europe, mostly to the U.S. and western Europe. A tiny minority headed...

19th centuryIndependence DayPolandZionism

The Congress that Founded the Jewish State

Asael Abelman

Few famous names attended the first Zionist Congress in Basel, but it made Zionism a political movement no one could ignore Asael Abelman In February 1896, Herzl published Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State). Discussed in...

19th centuryArticlesIndependence DayIssue 14 | December 2012SwitzerlandTheodor HerzlZionism

Portrait of a People | Father of French Impressionism

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Boulevard Montmartre, Afternoon SunOil on canvas92.8 x 74 cmParis, 1897Hermitage Museum,St. Petersburg Camille Pissarro1830-1903 Impressionism The tags hanging in museums the world over next to Pissarro’s famous landscapes, cityscapes, and pointillist figures don’t...

19th centuryArtColumnsFranceIssue 32 | June 2016

My Son, the Pirate – Samuel Pallache

Yoav Pulver

Few rabbis have lived as colorful a life as Samuel Pallache. Merchant, diplomat, and emissary to the king of Morocco, Pallache even resorted to piracy to exact his people׳s revenge on the Spanish fleet Yoav...

ArticlesEarly modern periodIssue 32 | June 2016Moroccan JewsMoroccoNetherlandsStatesmen

A Beautiful Mind – Hedy Lamarr

Yemima Hovav

Actress Hedy Lamarr may have owed her fame to ״standing still and looking stupid,״ but she was anything but. This assimilated Jewess combined aspects of her colorful past to patent something that could have torpedoed...

actorsArticlesHollywoodHolocaust dayIssue 32 | June 2016ViennaWomenWWII

9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr

Yemima Hovav

Hedy Lamarr at age 7 1. Hedy Lamarr׳s parents came from a bourgeois Jewish background. Her father was born in Lvov, Poland, and her mother in Budapest. Assimilation was their fast track to economic security;...

actorsArticlesIssue 32 | June 2016New YorkViennaWomenWWII

Tomorrow’s War – WW1 Technology

Yishai Fraenkel

The greatest tragedy of World War One was the fact that its leaders started out fighting yesterday’s war – and their troops paid a terrible price. New weapons wrought carnage on the killing fields, but...

ArticlesFranceIssue 23 | October 2014WW1

Salvation at Stake – Shlomo Molkho

Moti Benmelech

The product of two worlds, New Christian Diogo Pires secretly delved into Jewish mysticism even as he rose through the ranks of Portuguese society. Then a visitor from the kingdom of the ten lost tribes...

Articlesconversosfalse messiahsIssue 33 | August 2016kabbalaMessianismPortugalRenaissance

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A Soul Divided – Heinrich Heine

Why We Eat Haman Taschen – Purim Spiel

Topsy Turvy – Purim Spiel

The Original Zionist Congress

The Congress that Founded the Jewish State

Portrait of a People | Father of French Impressionism

My Son, the Pirate – Samuel Pallache

A Beautiful Mind – Hedy Lamarr

9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr

Tomorrow’s War – WW1 Technology

Salvation at Stake – Shlomo Molkho

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A Soul Divided – Heinrich Heine

Why We Eat Haman Taschen – Purim Spiel

Topsy Turvy – Purim Spiel

The Original Zionist Congress

The Congress that Founded the Jewish State

Portrait of a People | Father of French Impressionism

My Son, the Pirate – Samuel Pallache

A Beautiful Mind – Hedy Lamarr

9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr

Tomorrow’s War – WW1 Technology

Salvation at Stake – Shlomo Molkho

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